Collecting Photo Albums

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[EKman]

Jason, thanks so much for those pics, I am sure the method was mundane for the rest of you guys, but I an enlightened and may put something similar together for my loose photos. I will let you guys know when I get my first album. Thanks for all your kind help and advice, I will take it to heart. That is the great thing about this forum, I can ask all the important questions and learn from others before I make some serious errors. Thanks again gents

[Maurice]

Collecting photo's and albums is really cool! The thrill of finding unpublished photos, which bring new facts to live, or never seen before photos of your local area. Then the search, which unit is pictured, which person? Does the owner still live? All in all, hours can go by researching the past in that way.

Compared to the price you have to pay at some archives, orginal photos are even cheap!

Kind regards, and happy hunting!

maurice

[douglynn]

i have quite a few albums here are 3 that came while i was away for a few days.sometimes its nice to look at them.and the one that looks the most unintresting.turns out to be a nice little gem.

[douglynn]

here are a few from the little black book

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luger shot

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opps

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more luger shots

[douglynn]

loads more pics looks like belguim but will not hogg all the pages thanks for looking

[Jon9]

iam the one who wants them doug

[Robert Noss]

This happens when You do NOT specify to a certain subject:



And these are only a part of my collection. The more interesting and more expensive alben are stored in a better way.

As I can see that You are from Hawai - correct me if I am wrong - moisture could be a problem. You should always store them in a dry and warm surrounding, no direct sunlight.

German Ebay is in fact a good place for photo-hunting, but they have gone crazy lately, I have been suspended now, selling photos from the 3rd Reich is very difficult now.

Sometimes it can be necessary to "rip" an album. I have had albums which contained only one interesting photo, the rest being civil family snapshots. Then I take out the one photo that I want.

Not all albums which show period photos ARE period. I have an album which shows photographs from the 8th may 1945, the surrender of a unit and march to POW-camps. These photos are of course put in that album after 1945, maybe even in the mid-50ties. For my opinion they are original too. If the soldier was in captivity after the war and came home after a few years, when should he have put together his album anyway ? Of course a few years after 45. If that comes from one man and if the prints are the original first prints from the negatives, I have no problem with it.

Kind regards
Robert

[douglynn]

i notice that some times in the albums there are a few missing.but you can not allways blame some one takeing them out i e deallers.it could be family members.one of my albums has 50 per cent good and the rest crap.but that may not have been crap to the person who owned it.it does seem a shame when you see empty albums on auction sites it does make you wonder???and robert great collection.you have there